| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Agents

ByHarvey Kalmenson

Agents. (Necessary, but not necessarily evil.) * The “commercial talent agent;” you will by necessity have to be in a working relationship with them.* Without an agent, the voice over artist has little chance of success (in Los Angeles). It may be of interest if we begin by understanding what an agent actually is, and…

| | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Now What Do I Do?

ByHarvey Kalmenson

Taking a page from “Mission Impossible,” your goal, if you choose to accept it, is to make your heart sing. Sing with the joy of knowing you are attempting to succeed, with no thoughts of odds, or predictions.— hk It’s your bed, my friend. Stop calling it a business. It isn’t a business. It’s a…

| | | | | | | | | | | | | |

World War II

ByHarvey Kalmenson

Expect, feel an emotional twinge, reserved for those with hearts large enough, to relive a moment in time, which changed the breath and shape of our country, and the world. It was an era of endless tests, developed at the end of our country’s worst crisis since the Civil War, and a depression of such…

| | | | | | | | | | | | |

The Actors’ Daily

ByHarvey Kalmenson

“Each alone must seek out another Then the two join hands as friendsProviding the rhythms of a new parade And on it will go, and grow For only friendship will ease the vacancy, Experienced by those of us Within our selected art form” HK I grew up hearing my father’s words and deeds. His doctrine…